- Date
- April 13, 1989, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Matawan, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N43663Piper PA-28-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890413007889I
- Case key
- 36395
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate action after encountering tailwind conditions during landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During the approach the wind shifted to a tailwind. The aircraft landed normally but the CFI was unable to stop within the confines of the runway and ran off the end.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N43663
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7515001
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- B.L. Gibson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- 2N8 · Marlboro, runway 27, 2,170 × 40 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 100 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.